Hi, I don’t know if you recognize me, but today, I’m wearing my glasses. I know. I look VERY different. I’m still me, but profoundly different, because I have glasses on my face. My eyes …
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Can you move
Me to Joe, after a glass of wine on a fairly empty stomach, while watching his tiny body move, which is both tiny but also big: ‘Joe, I grew you in my body, isn’t that …
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take a bow
One of my favorite things about Morrison’s family (specifically my Mother-in-Law) is that they put bows, like actual RIBBON BOWS, on presents. At Christmas time, every present is wrapped and tied up with a piece …
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flying with two kids
Let’s check all our bags except for the bag that will have most of their things, some things will go in a carry-on bag but then some will go in their checked bags, there will …
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I’m a Barbie Middle Aged Girl Woman
41 year old mother of 2 goes to the Barbie movie in Barbie cos-play on a Friday night, has a religious experience, remembers viscerally her Barbie tropical pool that came with a tiny container of …
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there’s an app for that
Joe will say he wants chicken nuggets, or a pear, or a piece of cake, or an entire bagel but with different kinds of nut butter on each side, sliced into triangles, or strawberries with …
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women
Walking home after dropping Joe off at school, I spot another woman (eleven year old girl trapped in woman’s body?) up the street, who looks like someone I know: Me: (like she’s my best friend …
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Mayonnaise Cake
Many years ago, the wife of a mayonnaise salesman (true story) thought, maybe I’ll make a cake with mayonnaise instead of eggs, maybe that would be delicious and my husband would then sell even more …
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dream dinner
I don’t know what this says about me? But watching the Bear’s brilliant season 2 Christmas Dinner episode in which Jamie Lee Curtis plays a Mom frantically making a seven fishes feast for her family, …
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Back to school
There I was at the drugstore, purchasing supplies for Morrison’s upcoming colonoscopy, feeling thoroughly 41, when I saw her: a 3 subject, college ruled Five Star notebook, waiting for me on an endcap. In high …